Dissent and repression

• Publishing

  • tamizdat - publish works abroad
  • Samizdat - hand written duplicates highly riskily circulated risking imprisonment
  • Eduard Kuznetsov accused of samizdat and spent seven years in prison
• poetry

  • Mayakovsky square - regular reading attended by Intelligensia and students - Vladimir bukovsky arrested and drove to full dissident from losing uni place
• Magazines

  • syntaxis editor sent to labour camps for exposing human rights abuses
  • Attempted to smuggle abroad writings
  • 130k - antisocial life - barred from work for state - sent labour camps and hospitals
• music

  • magitzidat - illegal recordings shared - underground jazz and boogie woogie
  • yuliy Kim - Moscow kitchens
  • childrens illustrators whilst working underground
• Kirov ballet dancer defected
• 1962 Ukraine uprising

  • complain over 25% butter increase and meat 30%
  • Coincide with wage cuts in electrical works
  • Wounded 80 and killed 28 and put in unmarked graves
  • Media blackout and revealed years later
• 500,000 Soviets participated in strikes
• workers didn‘t focus on political reform but insidviduals issues food prices, private plot restrictions and power abuse

  • Intelligensia dissident from uneven destalinisation and focused and cultural affairs restrictions
• to stop worker dissent food prices were kept low however high production costs yielded - harmed command economy
• Intelligensia

  • fundamnetally political
  • peer policing emerges
  • authoritarian state
• psychiatric hospitals used against dissidents
• 1956 - 8 to 9 million prisoners rehabilitated and 2 million return from gulags

  only 2% are political prisoners